Lure of Ambition

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1919 · 50 min · Romance · TMDB 10.0/10

Overview

Theda Bara plays the social-climbing Olga Dolan, who becomes the Duchess of Rutledge by means of deception and sheer ruthlessness. Sadly, Bara, who had more or less single-handedly begun the "vamp" craze with the prototype of the genre, A Fool There Was, went out with little more than a whisper. She left films after the ironically titled The Lure of Ambition, and was lured back only twice, in: The Unchastened Woman (1925), a poverty row concoction which had few takers, and Madame Mystery (1926)

Directed by Edmund Lawrence

Cast

• Theda Bara — Olga Dolan
• Thurlow Bergen — Duke of Rutledge
• William B. Davidson — Hon. Cyril Ralston
• Dan Mason — Sylvester Dolan
• Ida Waterman — Duchess